Healthy Holidays!

For a twist on concierge businesses, the following articles provide useful insights into how to put the joy back in your holidays. Stress, mood disorders, and chronic health conditions can threaten your family gatherings. For a healthier new year check them out or offer the links to your patients.

Article 1: Season to Shine for Concierges

Article 2: A Portable Glow to Help Melt Those Winter Blues

Article 3: For Some, Psychiatric Trouble May Start in Thyroid

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Holiday Greetings to the tune of “Jingle Bells”

Dashing through the office
With one purpose on our minds
Over the files we pore
Serious most of the time

Bells of Michael & Christie ring
As referring patients arrive
Oh what fun Neuropsych can be
While testing rooms fill with glee

Jingle Bells!  Jingle Bells!
Have the associates arrived
Tending patients daily
Seeing improvements mainly

With the upmost care
Learning from patients occasionally
What needs to be adjusted so that
We can report back to primary

That things are going well
You may want to reevaluate but
Rest assured we are doing our best
To keep you informed of

What progress patients are making
So join in our song of
Celebration and success
That the last year has brought

As we prance into the New Year
With grand hopes in our hearts
May your New Year be blessed
With intangible things

Like recovery from traumatic injuries
Addictions and such
May your hearts & minds heal
May you find peace in your process

So bring on the art therapy
The Neurocognitive therapy
The Neurofeedback therapy
Or just plain talk therapy

And realize anew
That those you refer
Bless us indeed
With their cheery faces

Their hearts filled with gladness
That we have supported them
Though their recovering
Madness

Patients remind us
That we need each other
To manage the storms
Life sends to us

So come along and sing
A song of great joy
At Neuropsychological Associates
We are blessed because

We see great progress
We hear triumphs
Over the pain
We will never stop while

Janet, Laura, Lisa & Mimi
Meet and greet each and everyone
We dash away, dash away the
Fears and isolation alone

So bring on the New Year with
A host of new patients and
Share your knowledge with us
As we gain your trust

We’ll keep practicing our skills
And perfecting them more
So our Concierge practice
Can serve even more

So dash away now, dash away more
May your New Year be filled
With PEACE, & WONDER
HAPPY HOLIDAYS to all from
Neuropsychological Associates

Dr. Fraga Speaks

KRON 4 “Aging Matters”

12/19/11, 11-11:30am

Dr. Fraga speaks about attitudes and perspectives in aging.

The Aging Boomer Show Guest Appearance

The Aging Boomer Show at the Sonoma Radio station on Dec 12.

This show is LIVE from 2:00 to 3:00 PM.

Dr. Fraga will be an on air guest.

Welcome to Complimentary Integrative Medicine!

Banishing Your Stress With Her Talented Hands Welcome to Complimentary Integrative Medicine!

Perspectives on Comorbidity and Cancer in Older Patients: Approaches to Expand the Knowledge Base

Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 19, Issue 4 (February), 2001: 1147-1151
© 2001 American Society for Clinical Oncology

Perspectives on Comorbidity and Cancer in Older Patients: Approaches to Expand the Knowledge Base

By Rosemary Yancik, Patricia A. Ganz, Claudette G. Varricchio, Barbara Conley
From the Geriatrics Program, National Institute on Aging; Divisions of Cancer Prevention and Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD; and Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Click here to read the whole article

The Issue of Comorbidities | Aging with HIV

Aging with HIV can create a complicated health-related picture. How do comorbidities affect HIV disease progression. 

“I’ve been spending some time lately on the relationship between cognitive impairment and older age in people living with HIV. The research is…”

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Here’s the latest on Alzheimer’s!

thechart.blogs.cnn.com

Two new reports in Nature Genetics detail the discovery of five new pathways for detecting Alzheimer’s disease, the memory-stealing brain illness that is especially prevalent among the elderly. Previous research had identified five genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, or AD.
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